“Ghosts of Mississippi” quotes
(1996)
Rob Reiner
directed this movie
in 1996
Title Ghosts of Mississippi
Year 1996
Director Rob Reiner
Genre Drama
Year 1996
Director Rob Reiner
Genre Drama
Plot – On the night of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers is mysteriously killed. He was a civil rights activist and the secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Black People. Byron De La Beckwith, a supporter of white supremacy, is accused of the murder and he's taken to trial but the case doesn't have any consequences. Thirty years later, the District Attorney assistant Bobby DeLaughter reopens the case as he finds new evidences. Byron is aged but he's called to testimony in the new trial. He still claims his innocence but this time he's proclaimed guilty.
All actors – Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Virginia Madsen, Whoopi Goldberg, Susanna Thompson, Craig T. Nelson, Lucas Black, Joseph Tello, Alexa Vega, William H. Macy, Ben Bennett, Darrell Evers, Yolanda King, Jerry Levine, James Van Evers, Sky Rumph, Zoaunne LeRoy, Michael O'Keefe, Bill Smitrovich, Terry O'Quinn, Rex Linn, Bill Henderson, James Pickens Jr., G. Ja'ron Henderson, Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly, Curtis Tyler Haynes, Richard Riehle, Jim Harley, Bonnie Bartlett, Brock Peters, Wayne Rogers, Finn Carter, William Howard, Diane Ladd, Andy Romano, Richard Stahl, David Carpenter, Bill Cobbs, Jordan Lund, Jerry Hardin, Ramon Bieri, C.R. Doan, Katherine Randolph, L.D. Bass Sr., Monty Thomas, Eliott Keener, Brandon McKennah, William L. Donald, Jim Stallings, Michael Strasser, Diana Bellamy, Rance Howard, Thomas Kopache, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Sarah Hunley, Marilyn Lovell, Jill Andre, Leigh French, James Marshall Wolchok, John A. Horhn, Spencer Garrett, Fenton Lawless, David Armstrong, Michael Hewes, James Homer Best, Thom Barry, Louis E. Armstrong, Ed Bryson, Maggie Wade, Jane Jenkins, Keenan K. Evers, Nicole Evers-Everette, Dijon S. Williams, Tracey Costello, Margo Martindale, Delmar Dennis, Ted Alderman, Stokely Carmichael, Eva Ford, Stacy Hall, Beth Hebert, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, Maridean Mansfield Shepard, Andy Sims, John M. Sullivan II, Malcolm X
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“I don't know if I'm going to Heaven or to Hell, but I'm going from Jackson.”
“- Bobby DeLaughter: I think about her keeping this thing alive all this time. Imagine a woman loving a man so much.
- Charlie Crisco: Hell, I can't even get a woman to love me while I'm still alive.”“In the horrific deaths of Emmett Till, Reverend G.W. Lee, Lamar Smith and a variety of other atrocities, no one has been convicted. And we feel that those guilty of having commited these ungodly acts have the feeling of assurance that nothing ever would be done. For you see, ladies and gentlemen, white juries have yet to convict a white man in...” (continue)(continue reading)
“Nobody hardly even remembers Medgar anymore - whites or blacks - and that's a goddamn shame. Cause whatever rights the black man has around here now, he has them because of something called civil rights movement. And for a long time in the state of Mississippi, back before the newspapers and television, back before the fancy speeches, my brother...” (continue)(continue reading)
“I don't see what difference it makes if a man was bushwhacked yesterday, today, or 27 damn years ago. Murder is murder.”
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